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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in online education are empowering people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are quite a few topics that elearning institutions are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by organizations like Colorado State University-Global Campus to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage issues like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Trainers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desire for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also addresses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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